Exploring digital literacy practices of 12- to 15-year-old children from Philippi and Khayelitsha townships in Cape Town

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dc.contributor.advisorBanda, Felix
dc.contributor.authorSentwa, Kuhle
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-14T11:46:05Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-27T08:53:36Z
dc.date.available2018-08-14T11:46:05Z
dc.date.available2024-03-27T08:53:36Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionMagister Artium - MA (Linguistics, Language and Communication)
dc.description.abstractDespite the spread of digital communication technologies and the integration of mobile phones into everyday life, young children's literacy practices are changing rapidly, and schools are struggling to address the potential of these digital communication technologies for learning. Mobile phones are currently a key consumer item, an image of social capital, and they initiate their users into a portable web of numerous applications including those literacy related. Much research has been done on children's relationship with digital technologies and the implications of this for their literacy learning and education in general, but there is almost no research on this in the global south, and almost none in South Africa. Filling this gap is crucial given the crisis in South Africa in basic education. The main aim for this research is to establish the kinds of digital technology and information systems affordances (internet facilities, tablets, books, magazines, newspapers, radios, TVs, video and computer games, etc.) in the homes of the selected children to explore how these digital technologies and information system affordances could be used to enhance the academic literacy development of 12- to 15-year-old children in informal settlements or townships in Cape Town.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/9864
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Cape
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Cape
dc.subjectDigital literacy
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectLiteracy practices
dc.subjectMultimodality
dc.subjectMobile communications
dc.subjectPhilippi
dc.subjectKhayelitsha
dc.subjectWestern Cape
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectChildren
dc.subjectAdolescents
dc.titleExploring digital literacy practices of 12- to 15-year-old children from Philippi and Khayelitsha townships in Cape Town

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